Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 6/8/2012

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’sselections.

FAA Chooses Office 365 for Email, CollaborationThe FAA will deploy the solution, provided by Computer Sciences Corp., to some 60,000 FAA employees and 20,000 Department of Transportation employees, according to a Microsoft news release.

Microsoft Touts Cloud Security in Office 365 for Government LaunchKoenigsbauer informs that the multi-tenant service is hosted on a segregated cloud across high-security, geographically dispersed data centers. Furthermore, IPv6 support for Office 365 is expected to go live in September to accommodate the shift to the next-gen networking standard.

Alfalak introduces Microsoft Office 365 in Saudi ArabiaMicrosoft and Alfalak’s objective is to drive the customers to fully realize the business benefits of the cloud and to develop a greater business future with more environmentally advanced products in terms of efficiency, productivity and reliability.

Microsoft Agile Cloud WorkingThe key way to approach these tools is with ‘Social Computing’ in mind, simply meaning the use of social media web sites, like those of Facebook or Linkedin, for your own corporate purposes.

Top 6 New Features of Windows 8 Release PreviewYou can check out Window 8 Release Preview for yourself by downloading it from preview.windows.com. For a deep dive into what Microsoft’s next operating system holds, see PCMag’s Hands on with Windows 8 Release Preview.